{"id":32964,"date":"2015-07-29T04:51:36","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T10:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=32964"},"modified":"2015-07-29T13:31:15","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T19:31:15","slug":"juvenile-burrowing-owl-a-dubious-strategy-against-the-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/29\/juvenile-burrowing-owl-a-dubious-strategy-against-the-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"Juvenile Burrowing Owl – A Dubious Strategy Against The Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"

Young Burrowing Owls are endlessly entertaining. Last month in Box Elder County, Utah\u00a0I watched this juvenile attempt to deal with a rather strong wind in a novel way.<\/p>\n

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\"burrowing<\/p>\n

\u00a01\/3200, f\/7.1, ISO 500, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon<\/em> EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM +1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The wire perch was precarious in the stiff breeze and it kept losing its balance\u00a0so it backed up and leaned steeply into a metal post and braced itself between the post and a clump of wire.\u00a0As you can see the\u00a0wind was strong enough to lift the feathers on the back of the bird.<\/p>\n

I thought the\u00a0strategy was quite ingenious for a bird\u00a0but it didn’t work for long.<\/p>\n

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\"burrowing<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a01\/3200, f\/7.1, ISO 500, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon<\/em> EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM +1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

A sudden gust very nearly toppled the bird but its instincts and quick reflexes…<\/p>\n

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\"burrowing<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a01\/3200, f\/7.1, ISO 500, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon<\/em> EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM +1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/p>\n

enabled it to recover, though not without some…<\/p>\n

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\"burrowing<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a01\/3200, f\/7.1, ISO 500, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon<\/em> EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM +1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

apparent chagrin and embarrassment over its near calamity. It looked at me as if to see if I had noticed and then braced itself even more tightly against the post. If the bird understood the meaning of a wide human\u00a0grin it knew that I most certainly had noticed.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

Note: Some recent feedback from a reader informed me of some difficulty he was having reading my blog on an iPad because of the small print so\u00a0you may have noticed that I’ve increased the font size. Please let me know if the change causes any problems\u00a0for you on whatever platform you may be using. Thanks.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Young Burrowing Owls are endlessly entertaining. Last month in Box Elder County, Utah I watched this juvenile attempt to deal with a rather strong wind in a novel way.<\/p>\n

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